bail reform

The first jail inmate to test positive for COVID-19 at Rikers Island, Michael Tyson, died on Sunday. According to…

In a crisis—and absent any real leadership from the president—people love an authoritative man with a PowerPoint.

In the last few years, the topic of cash bail has come under renewed scrutiny. The practice inordinately affects the…

Effective Jan. 1, a New York law eliminating cash bail for most nonviolent crimes will go into effect. While…

On Christmas Day, Rev. Jackson Jackson Sr. posted the bonds of a handful of inmates at Cook County Jail in Chicago…

In 2015, Eugene Lee spent three months in jail for a botched armed robbery.

When listing all of the problems in America’s justice system, the racial disparities are too numerous to count, the…

In a righteous blow to the prison industrial complex’s enduring grab for funds from already cash-strapped…

So much for the Sixth Amendment, which should guarantee a suspect the right to a speedy trial. According to the…

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There are many injustices in our nation’s criminal-justice system. But one of the greatest injustices occurs before…

Timothy C. Evans, chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., announced Monday that Cook County judges…

Color of Change and the Movement for Black Lives are joining local grassroots organizers to reunite incarcerated…

Dozens of low-level offenders in Harris County, Texas, are being released from jail under a new no-cash bail system…

The Black Lives Matter movement is working to have an impact on the lives of black women in dozens of jails across…